Work of the Month: Young Chickens by Walter Hoyle
Young Chickens, Gouache, pen and ink, 1958. ‘If I were asked which were the best years,’ wrote Walter Hoyle (1922 – 2000) ‘I would not hesitate to answer those spent in and around Great Bardfield and Great Saling’. During that happy time, between 1952 and...
Work of the Month: Ives Farm by Edward Bawden
Edward Bawden CBE, RA, RDI (1903 – 1989) Ives Farm, Great Bardfield 1956, Linocut Edward and Charlotte Bawden moved to Brick House in Great Bardfield in 1932 sharing the house with Eric and Tirzah Ravilious. Ives Farm backed onto the garden at Brick House. This...
Work of the month: Black House by Anne Rothenstein
Painting and collage Anne Rothenstein is the daughter of Michael and Duffy Rothenstein and was brought up in Great Bardfield with her brother Julian. The exhibition Great Bardfield and Beyond: A Working Landscape includes 4 of Anne’s works, including one...
Work of the month: Iron Bridge at Ewenbridge
Watercolour on paper, 1942 One of the highlights of the forthcoming exhibition ‘Great Bardfield and beyond: a working landscape’ is Eric Ravilious’s 1942 watercolour of the iron footbridge over the river Pant at Ewenbridge, near Shalford. The...